WAVERLEY _Facing page_ 2 In an instant his red cap was off and he was bowing and saluting . . . with . . . extravagant gestures 20 3 So fierce was the attack . . . made on Edward, that the young man was compelled to draw his pistol 66 4 Rose Bradwardine . . . watched him with a sigh on her lip and colour on her cheek 84 5 "Vich Ian Vohr," it said in a dreadful voice, "beware of to-morrow" 102 GUY MANNERING 6 "Ride your ways, Laird of Ellangowan," she cried 136 7 He would stand there transfixed . . . till a serving-maid pulled his skirts to tell him dinner was waiting 150 8 He saw his late companion . . . engaged in deadly combat with a couple of rascals 154 9 Hazlewood snatched the gun from the servant and haughtily ordered Brown to stand back and not to alarm the lady 170 ROB ROY 10 He took the lantern . . . and holding it up, proceeded to examine the stern, set countenance of Frank's guide 256 11 The fight between Frank and Rashleigh 266 12 "Stand!" she cried, . . . "and tell me what you seek in Macgregor's country" 278 13 The girl's face, perhaps not altogether unintentionally, touched that of Frank Osbaldistone 300 THE ANTIQUARY 14 "Turn back! Turn back!" he cried 344 15 Dousterswivel flung himself on his knees 375 16 He lighted his beacon accordingly 410 RED CAP TALES CERTAIN SMALL PHARAOHS THAT KNEW NOT JOSEPH IT was all Sweetheart's fault, and this is how it came about. She and I were at Dryburgh Abbey, sitting quietly on a rustic seat, and looking toward the aisle in which slept the Great Dead. The long expected had happened, and we had made pilgrimage to our Mecca. Yet, in spite of the still beauty of the June day, I could see that a shadow lay upon our Sweetheart's brow. "Oh, I know he was great," she burst out at last, "and what you read me out of the _Life_ was nice. I like hearing about Sir Walter--but--" I knew what was coming. "But what?" I said, looking severely at the ground, so that I might be able to harden my heart against the pathos of Sweetheart's expression. "But--I can't read the novels--indeed I can't. I have tried _Waverley_ at least twenty times. And as for _Rob Roy_--" Even the multiplication table failed here, and at this, variously a-sprawl on the turf beneath, the smaller fry giggled.